More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God. But Atheism up 600%

There are different ways at looking at statistics. When 7% of those polled by Gallup say “no” to a belief in God, that’s a 600% increase from what Americans answered in the 1940s.

This is an extremely troubling trend for the country that somebody needs to pay attention to.

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More than 9 in 10 Americans still say "yes" when asked the basic question "Do you believe in God?"; this is down only slightly from the 1940s, when Gallup first asked this question.


Despite the many changes that have rippled through American society over the last 6 ½ decades, belief in God as measured in this direct way has remained high and relatively stable. Gallup initially used this question wording in November 1944, when 96% said "yes." That percentage dropped to 94% in 1947, but increased to 98% in several Gallup surveys conducted in the 1950s and 1960s. Gallup stopped using this question format in the 1960s, before including it again in Gallup's May 5-8 survey this year.

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